2022-06-21.log

vkoskivThere are some places that can 3D print different metal alloys.00:07
vkoskivWhich sounds like a fun thing to try for the buttons there, perhaps00:08
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cinap_lenrekhm02:30
cinap_lenrekgetting erratic battery status readings02:30
cinap_lenreki had the batteries disconnected for a while02:30
cinap_lenreknow, when the system is off, the right 4 cells show 3.3v02:31
cinap_lenrekthe the last left hand side battery shows ~5.xv02:31
cinap_lenrekall other cells show 0.0v02:31
cinap_lenrekwhen i power the system up02:31
cinap_lenrekall but the bottom left hand side cell show 0.0v02:32
cinap_lenrekok02:54
cinap_lenrekreplugged batteries02:54
cinap_lenrekseems to be back to normal now02:54
cinap_lenrekall cells show voltage now02:54
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grubmanhey all, what are the options for upgradeable CPU + RAM for the reform? i see on the home page that they are upgradeable.05:10
grubmani'd lke to at least bump the RAM up to 8 GB05:10
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joschgrubman: right now there is only a single option. More options are in the works, namely a ls1028a based board https://source.mnt.re/reform/mnt-reform-layerscape-ls1028a-som and a board that makes the reform compatible with boards in the raspberry pi CM4 module form factor (including the rpi cmp4)06:37
joschor RK3566 based pine64 soquartz06:39
kfxrpi cm4 are tough to find these days06:39
joschkfx: do you find any other from scalpers? :D06:40
joschkfx: lukas puts higher priority on the ls1028a board which i like06:40
kfxit's the rpi foundation's own fault for prioritizing industrial customers06:40
josch* there is supposed to be a dash between "any" and "other"06:40
kfxyeah I'm far more interested in the ls1028a than in the rpi (no availability) or the rockhip (no drivers)06:41
kfxalthough to be honest now that there are 11,495 million chinese single-board computer vendors I am surprised at how few of them slid into the cm4 vacuum with compatible boards06:43
joschflaky or missing suspend currently makes the reform unfit for me as a daily driver -- i usually have 10 workspaces open with stuff on all of them. Is there hope for a new board to better support suspend?06:49
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cinap_lenwerkmy mnt reform shuts down after a few seconds when running off battery10:38
cinap_lenwerkno idea why10:38
cinap_lenwerki had it plugged in the night on ac10:38
cinap_lenwerkso batteries should be charged10:39
cinap_lenwerkand when its off the voltages all show 3.3v on all cells10:39
cinap_lenwerkany tips?10:39
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cinap_lenwerkis it normal that th battery voltages change depending on if the imx8 is powered on/off?12:22
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vkoskivI'm not an electrical engineer but I'd expect the current draw of the SoM to pull the voltage down somewhat.13:39
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joschbkeys: there is a new sd-card image you can try out which includes the fixes for the prolbem nocko found: https://source.mnt.re/reform/reform-system-image/-/jobs/826/artifacts/browse/reform2-imx8mq/14:35
joschbkeys: i tested both of these images on my sd-card successfully -- both boot fine over here14:35
joschvkoskiv: you can now "sudo apt install box64" -- i'd be happy about any feedback you can provide so that i can fix the packaging14:36
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flowyjosch: if you're adding that ytdl profile stuff to the mpv defaults in the sysimage skel, might consider also ignoring vp9, i.e.:15:54
flowyytdl-format=bestvideo[height<=?1080][vcodec!=vp9]+bestaudio/best15:54
flowyi don't think the driver supports vp9 currently15:55
flowyi've personally given up with mpv... there's something about my setup that makes everything chunky despite hw accel. i just use clapper instead15:56
flowymight be my use of pipewire15:57
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joschflowy: then you probably should also ignore av01, no?16:14
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flowyi guess yeah!16:36
joschand that'd make me worry whether this will disable video completely on some platforms supportey by youtube-dl?16:37
flowyright... oh well. just seems a bit funny, if people are using this mostly for youtube, to put hwdec=auto in there without ignoring the codecs that ytdl will fetch from youtube 99% of the time that will make hwdec not possible.16:44
flowythough i guess based on my own experience hwdec doesn't even work very well16:45
flowyCPU decoding and limiting to practical resoltutions is effectively the better default16:46
joschflowy: i think instead of forbidding vp9 it would be better to adjust the format sorting via --format-sort16:48
flowyi did some tests again because i was curious. i took 3 random videos from youtube, dl'd best h264 @1080, ran mpv with audio disabled to make sure my pipewire setup isn't doing anything weird16:49
flowyhwdec=no played all of them smoothly16:49
flowyhwdec=auto made all of them chunky16:49
flowyconfirmed the codec was being used monitoring interrupts16:49
flowyso yeah i'm just not using mpv w hw accel16:50
flowyclapper works great though16:50
minuteis clapper already packaged?16:52
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flowythe flatpak @flathub works perfectly, no tweaks necessary to start using hw accel16:53
flowyon sysimagev3 i mean16:53
minutenice16:56
flowyi've actually been using clapper to watch a lot of stuff on the reform over the last few months16:56
flowyeven 1080p60fps gaming streams work well16:56
minutenice16:58
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flowythat's where you can basically never rely on mpv working without hw accel16:59
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cinap_lenrekits really wired17:49
cinap_lenrekthe issues with shutting down went away after resetting the lpc17:50
cinap_lenrektho the battery status is still strange17:50
cinap_lenrekone cell now shows 0.0v17:50
cinap_lenrekother shows 5v sometimes17:50
cinap_lenrekother 0.9v17:50
cinap_lenreklike wtf17:51
cinap_lenrekwer misst misst mist17:51
minutemaybe some of the cells are really busted?17:52
minutebut weird @ reset17:52
cinap_lenrekall i did was having the cells disconnected for a while17:54
cinap_lenreki removed the cables from the board17:54
cinap_lenrekwhile i was testing in the rack17:54
cinap_lenrekand they where nicely charged before17:54
cinap_lenreki think it was around 4 weeks17:54
minuteah17:54
minutemaybe the battery board connector is not all the way in at the motherboard?17:55
minuteit has to click in17:55
cinap_lenrekyou think its just a bad connection?17:55
minuteif it is loose then those effects could happen yeah17:55
cinap_lenrekindeed17:55
cinap_lenreksystem status says cell missing17:55
cinap_lenrekjesus17:58
cinap_lenrekfixed17:58
cinap_lenreki'm so dumb17:58
minutewhat happened?17:59
cinap_lenrekit was like you said17:59
minuteah nice17:59
cinap_lenreki didnt push in the cable fully17:59
minutewell i'm very glad18:00
cinap_lenreki'm such a desaster with hardware18:00
cinap_lenrekthank you man!18:00
minutewell, you know how to make it work on the driver level18:00
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kfxI demand to see cinap's battery cable drivers18:16
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vkoskivI just ran apt upgrade and sway broke19:26
minutevkoskiv: broke in what way?19:26
vkoskivFailed to initialize EGL context19:26
minutehuh19:26
minutewhich version of sway is that?19:26
vkoskiv00:00:00.181 [wlr] [EGL] command: eglQueryDeviceStringEXT, error: EGL_BAD_PARAMETER (0x300c), message: "eglQueryDeviceStringEXT"19:27
vkoskiv00:00:00.181 [wlr] [EGL] command: eglQueryDeviceStringEXT, error: EGL_BAD_PARAMETER (0x300c), message: "eglQueryDeviceStringEXT"19:27
vkoskiv00:00:01.936 [wlr] [render/egl.c:291] Software rendering detected, please use the WLR_RENDERER_ALLOW_SOFTWARE environment variable to proceed19:27
vkoskiv00:00:01.937 [wlr] [render/egl.c:521] Failed to initialize EGL context19:27
vkoskiv00:00:01.937 [wlr] [render/gles2/renderer.c:698] Could not initialize EGL19:27
vkoskiv00:00:02.221 [wlr] [backend/libinput/backend.c:116] libinput initialization failed, no input devices19:27
vkoskiv00:00:02.221 [wlr] [backend/libinput/backend.c:117] Set WLR_LIBINPUT_NO_DEVICES=1 to suppress this check19:27
vkoskiv00:00:02.221 [wlr] [backend/multi/backend.c:34] Failed to initialize backend.19:27
vkoskiv00:00:02.222 [sway/server.c:293] Failed to start backend19:27
minutewell, what is the sway version?19:27
vkoskivvkoskiv@reform:~$ sway19:27
vkoskivvkoskiv@reform:~$ /server.c:293] Failed to start backendo initialize backend.ES=1 to suppress this checkTWARE environment variable to proceed19:27
vkoskivv1.719:27
minutei'm running the same without a problem19:27
vkoskivHmm. Let me try another reboot.19:28
minutedid you create a new user account without privileges or something?19:28
minutei do run a custom mesa though, i should probably nuke it19:30
vkoskivI didn't do anything other than a apt upgrade + a reboot19:30
minuteok, let me clean out my /usr/local/lib19:32
flowyi'm on sysimagev3, also apt upgraded just a couple hours ago and sway is fine for me19:32
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flowyoh but wait a min19:33
flowyi vaguely remember the error you're getting from an upgrade months ago19:33
vkoskivNothing weird shows up on boot19:33
minuteworks for me even after cleaning out /usr/local/lib19:33
minuteand i'm on latest mesa from debian19:33
vkoskivWeird. I'll try reinstalling sway?19:33
flowyit's input related or something19:33
vkoskivNo updates available on sway19:33
flowyi ran sway through strace to figure it out19:34
vkoskivs/sway/apt19:34
minutevkoskiv: do you have anything in /usr/local/lib ?19:34
flowyi had the exact same error19:34
vkoskivI have python 3.10 and 3.9 in there19:34
minuteinterestingly kmscube doesn't work for me19:34
minuteah it does19:35
minutevkoskiv: in a console, can you run kmscube -D /dev/dri/card019:35
minutejosch: wow! after exiting "kmscube -D /dev/dri/card0", my console is gone!19:35
minuteah, but alt+f2 brings it back19:36
minutemaybe that would also work in the case of no display at boot...19:36
vkoskivI get "failed to set mode: invalid argument"19:36
vkoskivAnd a bunch of opengl info before that19:36
minutevkoskiv: hmmm maybe libdrm messed up... or kernel19:37
minutevkoskiv: do you have /dev/dri/renderD128?19:37
vkoskivIt did upgrade some kernel/dts stuff19:37
flowyi'm going through my bash history and stuff to try to remember how i fixed it19:37
vkoskivminute: I don't have that, no.19:37
minutevkoskiv: that means the GPU module was not loaded 19:37
minutemega weird19:38
vkoskivJust card0 in there19:38
minutevkoskiv: ok, so your etnaviv is gone19:38
vkoskivHuh. Does apt log install output anywhere?19:38
vkoskivI could share that19:38
minutenot needed19:38
minutevkoskiv: sudo lsmod | grep etna19:39
minutevkoskiv: also, sudo dmesg | grep etna19:39
vkoskivNothing19:39
vkoskivNothing19:39
minutewow19:39
minutevkoskiv: sudo modprobe etnaviv19:39
vkoskivYou're gonna love this19:40
vkoskiv[  663.706324] gpu_sched: disagrees about version of symbol module_layout19:40
vkoskivmodprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'etnaviv': Exec format error19:40
minutewow19:40
vkoskivSay what now? :D19:40
vkoskivI have an idea19:40
vkoskivI get an error on boot about binfmt formats19:40
vkoskivMaybe, just maybe it's confused because of that?19:40
minutemaybe it tried to load x86 modules or something weird?19:40
minutedid you mess with architectures?19:41
vkoskivNo, I ended up removing amd64 after some messing around19:41
vkoskivSo no amd64 packages installed19:41
minuteaha, but you did mess with architectures19:41
vkoskivBut my binfmt things are  still in there19:41
minuteyou had it installed and then removed19:41
vkoskivYeah19:41
minuteok, try to clean that up19:42
vkoskivSure, sec.19:42
minutei'm also upgrading to 5.18 from our repo now19:43
joschi tested the sysimage-v3 that was built today and thus should also have the latest package versions and that one boots up fine including sway, gnome and plasma19:44
flowyvkoskiv: i've also seen that module error. in my case it was because i ran apt upgrade at a time when my /boot partition was unavailable19:45
flowywhich caused a situation where i was running a different version kernel than modules that were trying to load19:46
vkoskivCleaned up binfmt stuff, still no sway19:46
minutethis sounds likely flowy -> vkoskiv 19:46
vkoskivflowy: My /boot comes from emmc, and I haven't unmounted it19:46
minutevkoskiv: do you have /lib/modules/5.18.0-reform2-arm64?19:47
vkoskivIs there a way to verify that theory?19:47
vkoskivminute: I do19:47
minutevkoskiv: what is `file /lib/modules/5.18.0-reform2-arm64/kernel/drivers/gpu/drm/etnaviv/etnaviv.ko` ?19:48
minutevkoskiv: and md5sum on that file?19:48
minuteshould be a6fdedf679d...19:48
vkoskiv/lib/modules/5.18.0-reform2-arm64/kernel/drivers/gpu/drm/etnaviv/etnaviv.ko: ELF 64-bit LSB relocatable, ARM aarch64, version 1 (SYSV), BuildID[sha1]=5974ae942e010b7deb08858b5015d368e3ec4cd1, not stripped19:48
vkoskivWonder where that came from, then19:48
minuteah yeah, if i try to insmod this, i get the same error19:49
minutebecause i'm running kernel 5.1719:49
minute(i haven't rebooted yet)19:49
flowyso what's your boot layout right now19:49
flowyand fstab19:49
minuteso it's a kernel version vs module version mismatch vkoskiv 19:49
minutevkoskiv: what's `uname -a`?19:49
vkoskiv5.18.2 kernel19:50
minute5.18.2??19:50
vkoskiv-reform2-arm64 yadda yadda19:50
minutenot 5.18.0?19:50
vkoskivLinux reform 5.18.0-reform2-arm64 #1 SMP Debian 5.18.2-1+reform1 (2022-06-08) aarch64 GNU/Linux19:50
vkoskivMy bad19:50
vkoskivI was looking at that Debian part there19:50
flowyyeah but that's not up to date19:50
flowyso your modules got upgraded19:50
vkoskivI just upgraded it19:51
flowyyour kernel didn't19:51
flowyyeah but it didn't work for some reason19:51
vkoskivHuh. How do I retry the kernel update?19:51
flowyi wonder if you're not reaching the right /boot19:51
vkoskivIt's been the emmc one this whole time, haven't messed with that19:51
flowybut is your root filesystem somewhere else?19:51
vkoskivMy uboot is on the sd card thoug19:51
flowyyour active one19:51
vkoskivYeah the root one is on nvme19:51
vkoskivencrypted lvm19:51
minutevkoskiv: what's `mount | grep boot` ?19:51
vkoskiv/dev/mmcblk0p1 on /boot type ext2 (rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro)19:52
minutethat seems correct19:52
minutevkoskiv: an sd card is not inserted?19:52
vkoskivIt is inserted19:52
minutewhat is on the sd card?19:52
vkoskivBut not mounted according to lsblk19:52
vkoskivIt have uboot on there I think, won't boot without it19:52
vkoskivI didn't get the no-sd card boot working yet19:53
minuteah. 19:53
minuteso u-boot will probably load the kernel from that sd card19:53
minuteand not from emmc19:53
vkoskivYeah, lsblk shows sd card but no mounted partitions19:53
minuteif you boot from sd card, your /boot needs to be on the sd card AFAIK19:53
vkoskivAnd this just happened to be the first kernel+module upgrade since? That makes sense19:54
vkoskivAh. So I need to fix this to boot from emmc then :D19:54
minuteso, i would suggest you change your fstab19:54
minuteno, first fix the boot from sd card19:54
vkoskivOkay19:54
flowyyeah i forget how i fixed my mismatch... i think i somehow told apt to reinstall the latest kernel after pointing /boot to the right location again19:55
minuteedit /etc/fstab and change mmcblk0p1 to mmcblk1p119:55
joschalternatively, delete boot.scr from the first partition on your sd-card, then u-boot will fall back to loading boot.scr (and kernel+initramfs) from emmc where you have the right versions19:55
minuteah19:55
minuteok, i did not know this was possible19:55
vkoskivI seem to remember emmc boot never working before19:55
vkoskivI didn't get it quite figured out, didn't know what the issue was with that19:56
vkoskivI tried every permutation of the boot config and switch, and it never booted without and sd card in19:56
flowyif you unmount /boot, change fstab, remount /boot, then run 'apt-get install --reinstall <yer latest kernel pkg>', that should also work19:57
vkoskivI'll try that19:58
flowyget the latest pkg name: 'dpkg -l|grep linux-image'19:58
vkoskivSo linux-image-5.18.0-reform2-arm64?19:59
flowyyeah19:59
flowyheh, yeah, this is actually what happened to me months ago when sway wouldn't start20:00
flowyit took me a while to figure out it had nothing to do with libinput blah blah20:00
flowyand that my kernel didn't upgrade properly20:00
minutesounds like we will need some kind of integrity checking tool ^^20:01
flowymy setup is just a little different in that my root is on nvme but uboot and /boot are on a little 1GB pslc swissbit card20:02
flowyand yeah it's easy for the sd card to get pushed out without noticing20:02
flowyso i had upgraded at a time when /boot wasn't available20:02
flowyand not noticed20:02
flowythen rebooted and things were out of sync20:02
flowyin your case i guess there weren't any errors because /boot is available but it's the wrong /boot20:03
flowybut my sd card doesn't contain a linux rootfs or anything, just /boot20:04
vkoskivI did the fstab boot partition upgrade trick, and now it works again!20:05
flowyyay20:05
vkoskivAnd I learned a bit. I think I know how to fix this, should it happen again20:05
vkoskivThanks for the help!20:05
minutejosch: i think your USB-C charger is really only for iphone and galaxy, and not a USB-C PD charger20:09
minuteit says something like 20W on the amazon page but reform charges with almost 60W and at 24V (or 20V in the case of USB-C PD)20:10
minutevkoskiv: great20:11
flowyusb c power brought back plug & pray20:17
vkoskivThe true wild card of connectors20:17
flowysometimes you can't even be certain of which device is going to supply the other power!20:18
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bkeysjosch: Okay I am about to try out that image on my Reform now that I am free21:24
bkeysOnce I confirm a working OS I am probably gonna get it ready to ship to the people who will hopefully repair it21:24
joschminute: interesting, so even though I was able to charge my reform with a 10W power supply, I need a 60 W power supply if I want to do usb-c charging? :(21:29
joschvkoskiv: glad to hear that it works for you again -- this would all be easier if uboot were able to turn on the internal display and then you would see what is happening :/21:30
joschbkeys: much success! I'm afraid I'll only be back online in about 12 hours but I'll read your messages in case you write more tonight. :)21:31
minutejosch: no, it does not need to have 60W. but you need more than 5V21:36
minutejosch: i'm not sure how the apple+galaxy charging works, but it's not the normal USB-C PD charging21:36
joschoh no :/21:36
minuteafaik apple just dumps more power at 5v than usb normally allows?21:37
joschI followed this heise review www.techstage.de/nz3jr2s and it claimed that the "Anker PowerPort III Nano" could do power delivery -- apparently PD is not equal to PD :/21:37
minuteah, quick charge can go higher but i guess it's negotiated in a different way that usb-c pd21:37
joschOn the german amazon page for that product it also says nothing about PD but on the english page it says "and supports USB-C Power Delivery" which was what made me decide for this one.21:38
minutehuh.21:38
joschyeah, very odd21:39
minutekind of unclear to me from anker's website21:42
minutei don't see the PD logo anywhere21:42
minutebut sometimes it's mentioned, sometimes not21:43
sknebel"PD" also doesnt mean it can do all the voltages21:43
sknebeli.e. it might be able to negotiate up to 12V, or even just 5V with high current21:43
sknebelbut not 20V21:43
joschpuh, okay, thanks for your input. I'm going on holidays for 10 days starting on Thursday and i'll take the reform with me as my only laptop as its first battle test (no worries, i'll also take a screwdriver with me) and my hope was that i could just share an AC adapter with my wife but i have another very small AC adapter that i'll take instead.21:44
- GNUmoon (QUIT: Ping timeout: 268 seconds) (~GNUmoon@gateway/tor-sasl/gnumoon)21:44
minuteah yeah i just wanted to write what sknebel just wrote21:45
joschsknebel: what is the thing that I have to look out for when buying a usb-c ac adapter if just PD is not enough?21:45
minutehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB_hardware#USB_Power_Delivery21:45
joschand yes, I now see that the anker website doesn't explicitly list PD for this device -- so the techstage.de information is just wrong...21:45
sknebel45W or above afaik is always 20V21:45
minuteyeah, i think the wattage will imply it21:46
sknebelbasically usually it'll go up to 3 amps21:46
sknebeland voltage levels are 5,9,12,15,2021:47
joschokay, sounds like choosing a 60 W minimum usb-c AC adapter will do the trick for me -- i'll try that out in two weeks then. Thank you guys! :)21:47
minuteyes, that should work21:47
sknebelso I guess 45W could in theory also be 15V at 3A. but 60W will have to be 20 21:47
minuteyep21:48
sknebel(over 60W also exists, but is then special case with supported cables that signal "I wont go up in flames if you push more through me")21:48
sknebel(and then there is USB PD PPS, where the voltage can be freely choosen, ... its complicated :D)21:49
+ GNUmoon (~GNUmoon@gateway/tor-sasl/gnumoon)21:57
minuteoof, didn't know about PPS22:24
vkoskivjosch: Enjoy the holiday!22:29
kfxthe anker powerpoint iii nano only goes up to 9v@2.2A (I have one and have tested it)22:33
kfxI have successfully charged the reform with both of these devices https://wiki.pine64.org/wiki/PinePower and a usb-c - type k barrel cable which negotiates 20V22:35

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